iipsiips NewsletterNewsletter IIPS Newsletter Volume 50 Numbers 1 & 2 January 2009 National Seminar on Methodological Is- sues in Measuring Millennium Develop- ment Goals in Districts of India A National Seminar on “Methodological Issues in Measuring Millennium Development Goals in Districts of India” was organ- ized by IIPS with the assistance of UNDP and UNFPA. It was conducted at IIPS during 12-13 December, 2008. This issue The seminar was inaugurated with lighting of lamp (R-L) Dr. N. Tumkaya, UNFPA Country Representative, India, provides a brief summary of the deliberations of this seminar. Prof. Ashish Bose, Prof. F. Ram and Prof. K. Srinivasan Greetings! Inside this Issue Page no. We are happy to present our 50th Volume of Newsletter. We New Registrar of IIPS 2 look forward to your continuing cooperation. Our IIPS li- Fifty Years of IIPS Library 3 brary has achieved 50 years of its existence. We are pre- senting an article ‘Fifty years of IIPS Library’ in this issue. National Seminar on MDG 8 The activities of faculty members and research staff during ISBEID Workshop 9 June to December 2008 are also presented. IIPS is organis- Report on the activities of Faculty and 10 ing a conference on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS in 1-4 August, Research Staff 2009 in Mumbai. Information about it is given in this issue IIPS Foundation Day 29 for those who are interested in the theme. Dr. Madhav Deliberations of Hindi Week 30 Kishanrao Kulkarni has joined IIPS as Registrar. A brief Ongoing Projects at IIPS 32 introduction of him is given in this Newsletter. International Conference on Alcohol, 36 Sexuality and HIV: Research and Pre- Editor vention in India INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTEVolume 50 (1& 2)FOR January POPULATION 2009 SCIENCES 1 (DEEMED UNIVERSITY) Mumbai, India IIPS Newsletter Dr. M.K. Kulkarni Registrar, IIPS Dr. Madhav Kishanrao Kulkarni has been appointed as Registrar of IIPS with effect from 21st October 2008. Prior to joining our Institute he was working as Assistant Director (Confidential) with Union Pub- lic Service Commission (UPSC) in New Delhi. He has done his M.Sc. (Zoology) at Marathwada University, Aurangabad. He acquired his PhD de- gree from the same University in 1994. The topic of his thesis was “A study of Biotoxins of Algal Ori- gin”. He has vast experience on finance, administration, training and preparing university syllabus. He worked for various Staff Selection Commission boards to conduct exams, such as Indian Railway Recruitment Board, B.S.R.B., Medical and UGC’s National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (NET) and State Eligibility Test for Lectureship (SET). Editorial Team Prof. F. Ram Editorial Guidance Prof. R B Bhagat Editor Dr. T V Sekher Member Dr. M V Vaithilingam Member Ms. P Princy Yesudian Editing & Communication At the Valedictory function of the short-term course on Ms. Sarita Gunaji Pawar Assistance “Demography, Gender and Reproductive Health”, held at IIPS dur- ing July-August, 2008. (L-R) Dr. Mirja Juntenen, Director of Nordic Center in India, Prof. F.Ram and Dr. T.V. Sekher 2 Volume 50 (1& 2) January 2009 IIPS Newsletter Fifty Years of IIPS Library The IIPS library has completed fifty years of its existence. The perfect documentation, regular procurement of demographic information sources, quick and smooth service, adoption of tech- nology etc. are the unique qualities adopted by the IIPS library from the beginning and continued till today. We are presenting a brief reminiscence about our library. Front view of the Library A BRIEF OVERVIEW As we all know, IIPS was started as Demographic Training From a modest start of 500 volumes since its inception, and Research Centre (DTRC) in July 1956 under the Di- the library has taken a long leap towards equipping itself rectorship of Dr. K.C.K.E. Raja. Initially the centre was with a substantial collection of books, pamphlets and situated at Tata Institute of Social Sciences building, at periodicals of demographic interest. During 1961 the Deonar, Bombay. For the main objectives of the centre - to library had a collection of nearly 4000 books, 2500 re- provide training and to conduct the research on demogra- prints and pamphlets, 80 periodicals, and microfilm cop- phy – a library was an essential section to support the ac- ies of 40 census volumes (IIPS Newsletter, No. 4, 1961). tivities and for documentation. Hence, the centre has The library was extensively made use by the students, started its library in February, 1957 with a small collection. staff members and other scholars in Demography and During this period the responsibility of the library was given allied fields visiting Mumbai (Bombay). This was re- to the then librarian of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, flected by the fact that over 5000 issues were made dur- Mr. B.I. Trivedi. ing 1961-62 (IIPS Newsletter, No. 4, 1961). Volume 50 (1& 2) January 2009 3 IIPS Newsletter PROFILE OF THE PRESENT LIBRARY The library is housed in a separate building and con- sists of a reading hall with a seating capacity of 80 users at a time and has well furnished conference hall of seating capacity of 40 with computer network con- nectivity to conduct academic programs. Photocopy- ing, Inter Library Loan, Reference Service, Current Awareness Service, Selective Dissemination of Infor- mation, Indexing, Documentation, Document Deliv- ery, OPAC are the major services provided by the library. The library receives about 325 Indian as well as for- An archive picture of IIPS library during late 1980s when it was functioning in the main building eign journals, of which 175 journals are received by (Currently occupied by the administration unit) way of subscription and another 150 journals are re- ceived by gift/ exchange. More than 17,500 journal articles have been indexed and added in the library management software. The library has a special col- Being established by the United Nations, as a Regional Centre of Asia-Pacific Region, the library gets almost all the publications from UN and specifically from UNESCAP and UNFPA. The important publications such as Statisti- cal Yearbook, Demographic Yearbook, World Monitoring Report, World Population Prospects and World Popula- tion Policies etc. are available since its first volume in the series. The library adds on an average 2000 such docu- ments per annum. In 1960 the centre has shifted on its own campus. Initially it was occupying a portion of the main building (currently occupied by the administration section office, IIPS). On 19th June, 1982 the library has shifted to an independent new building. The library cum computer centre (G+2) building is centrally located in the campus, the first, sec- ond floor of the building is allotted for the library, the car- pet area for the library measuring about 12000 Sq. Ft. It is centrally air-conditioned, well equipped with furniture, Cataloguing shelf used by the library in the earlier computer networking and internet facility. years 4 Volume 50 (1& 2) January 2009 IIPS Newsletter lection of all the Census Publications of India & neighbour- ing countries which are made available through OPAC. The library is fully automated with SLIM-21 software and offers online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) through a network of computers. The computers are located in differ- ent places in the library to ease the library users instead of centralized at one place. The library has books on differ- ent disciplines such as Demography, Statistics, Public Health, Family Planning, Anthropology, Mathematics, Eco- nomics, Sociology, Psychology, Health Education, Political Science, Geography, Computer Programming etc. pub- The library counter lished by the Union Government, State Governments, Cor- porate Bodies, International Agencies and Commercial post-independence period since 1951 to the latest one. The library preserves the old traditions of effective services and enhanced them with the help of advance technology. Cur- rently the library is in the process of digitalizing all the old census volumes (1881-1941) to provide the e-access through intranet. Digital Services The library is using ‘System for Library & Information Man- agement’ (SLIM-21) for its operation. The SLIM 21 provides search facility on two levels, simple search and advance The display board showing all the new Journal/book arrivals search. Boolean operation search is extended in advance Publishers of India as well as abroad. There are 77,180 books, 13,108 bound volumes of periodicals and 15,844 re- prints in the library. Seminar papers, conference proceedings, M. Phil. Dissertations, Ph. D. thesis are also been categorized as important reading material. DDC 18th Edition of classification scheme has been adopted and AACR-2 cataloguing rules are followed in the library. SPECIAL COLLECTION: The library has procured many old ar- chival of journals to maintain the academic quality. It has a unique collection of Census Publications published during Compact Twin Mobile Drive Units at the Library British Period (pre-independence period) i.e. 1881 – 1941, and Volume 50 (1& 2) January 2009 5 IIPS Newsletter search. A library user can see his/her library account on Web- OPAC on intranet as well as on internet. Browsing to view the new arrivals, list of holdings, and library rules are made easier through the OPAC. Introduction of the library as well as infor- mation about how to use the library is also provided in intro- duction and information part of the home page. Orientation of the library and the software is a part of the academic program of the Institute. Digital documents are accessible through a central server on intranet and are accessible by all the com- puters on the campus. The Librarian, Mr. D.D. Mestri with a visitor b) Offline Services Databases like, Census of India 1881, 1991 and 2001, DLHS, NUCSAL, NSSO and NFHS are accessible from NASSTOR.